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Thompson, Morris – Education Journal of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law, 1974
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs discussed the Bureau of Indian Affairs' efforts since 1970 and its projected plans, particularly those for giving Indian people control of their education. (NQ)
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Community Control, Educational Responsibility
Roessel, Robert A. – Contemp Indian Aff, 1970
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Community Control, Educational Improvement
Download full textThompson, Morris – 1974
The year 1974 marked the first full year in which the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) officially embarked on a policy of advising and assisting American Indian tribes to assume the administration of their own affairs (self-determination). It seeks to strengthen and stabilize tribal governments while continuing to maintain and fulfill its trust…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Control
National Advisory Council on Indian Education, Washington, DC. – 1977
Reflecting the concerns of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (NACIE) regarding issues that improve and promote American Indian and Alaska Native self-determination as mandated by the Indian Self-Determination and Educational Assistance Act, this annual report documents NACIE's 1976 activities and presents NACIE's 1976…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Agency Role, Alaska Natives
Americans for Indian Opportunity, Inc., Albuquerque, NM. – 1976
The report discusses how Indian tribes can conserve and develop their own resources at their own pace and explores the options available to them as owners of valuable natural resources. Discussed are problems encountered by tribal leaders with various government agencies; the basic precepts of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; how the problems of…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Change Strategies, Community Control
Daubon, Ramon – Grassroots Development, 2002
Five decades of international assistance for economic and educational development failed because of top-down management and the questionable premise that defined development problems, interventions, and human factors solely in economic terms. In contrast, the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) supported communities' capacity to formulate their…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Action, Community Control, Community Needs
Mogulof, Melvin B. – 1969
The extent of citizen participation is influenced by local community factors, the character of Federal agency policy, and the purposes of Federal legislators and administrators. The latter include: decrease of alienation, engagement of the "sick" individual in the healing process, creation of a neighborhood power force able to influence the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Agency Role, Citizen Participation, Community Control
Yin, Robert K.; Yates, Douglas – 1974
The purpose of the study reported here was to assess the various decentralization efforts as they occurred in different services and in different cities. The study reviewed decentralization's record in terms of five outcomes: (1) Increases in the flow of information between servers and served; (2) Improvements in service officials attitudes; (3)…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Case Studies, Change Strategies, City Government
Warren, Dave – 1975
American Indian education must be viewed in the context of: environments and their effect upon education (external environments, psychological environments, etc.); the trends and movements affecting Indian education (self-determination, local control, revenue sharing, economic development, etc.); agencies and other factors determining the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, American Indians
Lloyd, Frank W. – 1976
Much of the legal and regulatory public policy discussion has centered around the model of the community broadcasting station, a station which is licensed to serve a particular community and which broadcasts a combination of Public Broadcasting System-supplied and locally produced programs. Typically, these stations are controlled by a single…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Administrative Organization, Agency Role, Community Control
Upper Midwest Regional Educational Lab., Inc., Minneapolis, Minn. – 1969
Included in this packet sent to participants of the First National (American) Indian Education Conference (held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 20-21, 1969) are: summaries; statements; points of interest; recommendations or resolutions given to the Planning Committee by each workshop chairman; and an evaluation form. Each workshop report is…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Books, Committees
Benham, William J., Jr. – 1977
Providing tabular, graphic, and narrative data, this report on American Indian education programs within the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) details past, present, and future BIA educational concerns. Specifically, this report addresses: the BIA background; the contemporary scope of BIA education (Federal school operations, higher education and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Basic Skills, Boarding Schools
PDF pending restorationTiffany, Warren I. – 1971
Emphasizing the role of the school board, these guidelines for community control of Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) school operations also discuss transferring BIA schools to public school operation, community contracting for services, and initiating other than school board community participation in school affairs. The guidelines for development…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agency Role, American Indians, Board of Education Role
PDF pending restorationBureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Juneau, AK. – 1974
Presenting a brief outline of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) educational program in Alaska, this pamphlet describes: BIA day school operations (52 schools); the 2 boarding school operations (Mount Edgecumbe and Wrangell Institute); higher education programs; the school nutrition program; school construction; cooperation in educational…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Alaska Natives, American Indians
